Self-Indulgence

I finally got all the yard and garden work done for the year, so I’ve given my permission for snow. We’ve had flurries for a minute or two a couple of times this past week, but mostly it’s still all been rain, rain, rain and gloom, gloom, gloom. I’m looking forward to the snow, since I’ve come to believe that the only thing that will make the rain stop is the snow falling.

And I’ve been sick with a cold. So have several other people in the family. We look worse than we feel and we feel pretty rotten, but then it’s hard to look like much with a kleenex dangling from each nostril.

On top of the rain and the gloom and the dangling kleenexes, three of us have been experiencing a fall funk. Not me. I had my yearly low in May and June this year, but still, it’s hard to remain cheerful when everyone around you is dissatisfied with life. Things are looking up, though, and two of the three have taken positive steps toward better things, like new schools and new jobs.

When I first set my blog up on Squarespace, I imported part of the Blogger blog, but was unable to import all of it. I’d like to move some of my favorite posts from the old blog over here, and since I’m not really up to more difficult tasks, I may tackle part of that project today and tomorrow, so if you see things in your feed reader that you think you’ve read before, you are probably right.

One more thing: Anyone up for a game of email Scrabble? If you are, send me an email and I’ll set one up. 

Death, being the wages of sin,

why are not the righteous delivered from death, seeing all their sins are forgiven in Christ?

The righteous shall be delivered from death itself at the last day, and even in death are delivered from the sting and curse of it;[1] so that, although they die, yet it is out of God’s love,[2] to free them perfectly from sin and misery,[3] and to make them capable of further communion with Christ in glory, which they then enter upon.[4]

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Ten Things Canadians Do Well

A little list gleaned by searching for “Canadians are good at” in Google to see what would come up.

1. Hockey. That’s the great thing about the internet: I learn something new every day.
2. Development work. All because of their “listening and learning” skills. Yep, Canadians have mastered their kindergarten curriculum like no other country in the developed world.
3. Spelling. I suppose that’s because Canadians know how to spell words like colour and licence (n.) correctly.
4. Sticking their noses into American affairs. Words of wisdom from Jeff “Go home tourists & foreigners”, who is, undoubtedly, American.
5. Slaughtering helpless baby seals. Also from Jeff “Go home tourists & foreigners”. Lovely man, it seems, with consistent standards to boot.
6. Being American icons, “or at least movers and shakers.” No wonder Jeff wants them to go home.
   
7. SEO. Whatever that is, having the word hork in their vocabulary helps Canadians succeed at it.
8. E-government online services. I’ve used them myself and I’d agree. Canadians are good at everything bureaucratic, perhaps because they’re also good at
   
9. Innovation. Innovation is the Canadian heritage. (Is that statement oxymoronic?)
10. Stuff.  And this list proves it.